{"id":7576,"date":"2021-10-30T00:28:37","date_gmt":"2021-10-30T00:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/?p=7576"},"modified":"2023-05-17T07:08:05","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T07:08:05","slug":"worship-service-sunday-morning-31-october-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/2021\/10\/worship-service-sunday-morning-31-october-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Church Unity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the points covered in this sermon:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Reviewing the definition for the Greek verb, katartiz\u014d, and the four ways it is used in the New Testament<br \/>\n\u2022 Showing how the verb is used with reference to \u201cjoining together what has been disjointed\u201d<br \/>\n\u2022 Highlighting the reason why the Apostle Paul wrote his two letters to the church at Corinth<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0Making a comparison between 1 Corinthians 1:10 and 2 Corinthians 13:11<br \/>\n\u2022 The Greek verb is used in this context of \u201cjoining something together\u201d only in connection with the church at Corinth<br \/>\n\u2022 The Greek verb occurs at the beginning of the first letter and at the end of the second letter<br \/>\n\u2022 In both texts, Paul is pressing upon the members of the church the importance of nurturing a unified spirit<br \/>\n\u2022 At the beginning of the first letter, Paul introduced the subject of unity by \u201cbeseeching\u201d the brethren, and then proceeded to argue the case; whereas at the end of the second letter, Paul concludes the subject of unity by \u201cblessing\u201d the brethren, and proceeds to emphasize the truth<br \/>\n\u2022 In both texts, Paul addresses the members of the church as \u201cbrethren\u201d<br \/>\n\u2022 In the first letter, the authority and motivating principle for nurturing a spirit of unity is the name of the Lord Jesus Christ; whereas in the second letter, it is the God of love and peace<br \/>\n\u2022 At the beginning of the first letter, Paul gives four clear instructions to the members of the church as they endeavor to nurture unity<br \/>\n\u2022 At the end of the second letter, Paul gives four more instructions to the church as they endeavor to nurture unity<\/p>\n<div class=\"simplefavorite-button\" data-postid=\"7576\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"box-shadow:none;-webkit-box-shadow:none;-moz-box-shadow:none;\"><div class=\"bookmark-off\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the points covered in this sermon: \u2022 Reviewing the definition for the Greek verb, katartiz\u014d, and the four ways it is used in the New Testament \u2022 Showing how the verb is used with reference to \u201cjoining together what has been disjointed\u201d \u2022 Highlighting the reason why the Apostle Paul wrote his two letters to the church at Corinth \u2022\u00a0Making a comparison between 1 Corinthians 1:10 and 2 Corinthians 13:11 \u2022 The Greek verb is used in this context of \u201cjoining something together\u201d only in connection with the church at Corinth \u2022 The Greek verb occurs at the beginning of the first letter and at the end of the second letter \u2022 In both texts, Paul is pressing upon the members of the church the importance of nurturing a unified spirit \u2022 At the beginning of the first letter, Paul introduced the subject of unity by \u201cbeseeching\u201d the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12749,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[1191],"class_list":["post-7576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jared-smiths-sermons","tag-church-governance","post_format-post-format-video"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7576"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15677,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7576\/revisions\/15677"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}